Day 21 (why I needed this surgery and progress)

Last night our dog escaped the backyard and we are not sure how.  Luckily, after 30 minutes of searching for her neighbors a few houses down found her.  And I has to explain why I am limping and that I had hip resurfacing surgery.  I got the usual question....lifting too much weights?  Every doctor I saw asked if I had a traumatic experience to my hip?  I didn't think I did?  I asked could lifting have caused this and the answer was not likely.  Basically I would have had to lift everyday of my life since I was 5 to cause this and I would have to squat way too much and too poorly.  That brings me to the theory of how I ended up with my hip injury.  I had a fall when I was 20 or 21 when I was in the Army NG.  I was the first man up at an obstacle course on a day that had rained.  I went up the weaver and on the way down my hand slipped on the wet wood and I fell about 15 feet to the ground.  I landed hard on my right side, my shoulder went up into my head, my back hurt and I had the wind knocked out of me.  Thinking I was invincible and not wanting to look like a wuss I walked it off..literally. Sleeping that night was near impossible and the next morning we did a road March with full gear.  Every step hurt.  I never got an X-ray or even saw a dr about it because I felt fine a few days later.
Fast forward about 7-8 years I can no longer squat to depth.  I actually got red lighted on my squats and bombed out of a pl meet.  I felt so strong and my lifts were awesome in training but my squats were questionably high.  Everyone told me my last attempt was good a on video it looked it but what can I do.  Then about 5 months after a strongman comp around 7/13 I got groin pain. Most likely what happened is the fall caused my hip to displace and I got all the bone spurs and extra growth that led to fai and torn labrum and arthritis.  This is why at 30 I needed this surgery.  Maybe lifting sped up the process but it was not the root cause as I never seriously hurt myself lifting.  Anyhow, the past is the past and I live in the present.

I walked 1.28 miles in 22:10.  I'm getting faster.  I barely used the cane and did not use it at all the last 10 minutes.  I hardly use at all at home.